some considerations on the domestic areas of the chancay culture

Authors

  • Pieter Dennis Van Dalen Luna Departamento Académico de Arqueología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima -Perú.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/is.v17i31.7900

Keywords:

Chancay culture, Domestic Areas, Residential Areas, Chancay, Archaeology.

Abstract

Despite the importance acquired Chancay culture in north-central coast during the later periods (Late Intermediate Period: 1000-1470 AD and Late Horizon: 1470-1533 AD), little is known about cultural events, especially on settlement systems and spatial distribution and architecture of the same, that the few product of research conducted. In this paper, we present some considerations about Chancay domestic areas, from research conducted in domestic and residential areas in several Chancay culture sites in the Chancay Valley. Data retrieved Andoma site, in the town of Huando, allow us to define the constructive strategies of domestic function enclosures with rectangular enclosures consecutive deployed on platforms with internal storage areas rectangular, square, oval, on ground level or underground, as well as the presence of human offerings and funerary contexts that have been placed inside the enclosures.

Author Biography

  • Pieter Dennis Van Dalen Luna, Departamento Académico de Arqueología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima -Perú.

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2013-12-30

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Van Dalen Luna, P. D. (2013). some considerations on the domestic areas of the chancay culture. Investigaciones Sociales, 17(31), 65-82. https://doi.org/10.15381/is.v17i31.7900